Activities
Invited Talks
“The opportunities and challenges of speech technology in IoT”, invited talk at Global Audio Summit, virtual, 07.2024
“Learning fast and effective speech emotion recognition models with self-distillation”, invited research talk at L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, virtual, 05.2023.
“Future of healthcare: Opportunities and challenges in computer audition”, invited research talk at Community Day of KI-Camp organised by Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany, virtual, 24.03.2023.
“From local to global: Explainable AI for computer audition in digital health “, invited research talk in the Intelligent Sensing Winter School at the Centre for Intelligent Sensing, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, virtual, 12.12.2022.
“Multi-modal MIMIC-III ICU data: Recent AI breakthroughs”, invited research talk at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, virtual, 18.01.2022.
“Towards explainable and robust deep neural networks for computer audition”, invited research talk at L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, virtual, 24.02.2021.
“Deep learning in audio signal classification”, invited research talk at audEERING GmbH, Germany, 01.10.2020.
Editors
Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Guest editor for special issue of Audio-Inspired Methods for Healthcare, in Cyborg and Bionic Systems.
Editor for research topic of Advances in Computer Audition for Mental Health Applications, co-organised in Frontiers in Digital Health, Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Editor for research topic of Intelligent Audition Technologies for Personalized Healthcare, co-organised in Frontiers in Computer Science, Frontiers in Big Data, and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
Guest editor for special issue of “Trustworthy and Collaborative AI for Personalised Healthcare Through Edge-of-Things” on the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Chairs
- Session chair: Sensors, Wearables & IoT, EMBC, Orlando, FL, 2024.
- Session chair: AI security and privacy in speech and audio processing, ICASSP, Rhodes, Greece, 2023.
Program Committees
- Program committee member of the Australasian Database Conference, 2024.
- Program committee member of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
- Program committee member of the INTERSPEECH, 2024.
- Program committee member of the IEEE International Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2023.
- Program committee member of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2024.
- Program committee member of the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2024.
- Program committee member of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024.
- Program committee member of the 1st International Workshop on Data Mining for Mental Disorders held at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’23), Shanghai, China, 2023.
- Program committee member of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
- Program committee member of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Paris, France, 2023.
- Program committee member of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
- Technical Program committee member of the ICML Expressive Vocalizations Workshop & Competition (ExVo), 2022.
- Program committee member of the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Bangalore, Indian, 11.2022.
- Program committee member of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Montreal, Canada, 10.2021.
- Program committee member of the 9th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop@ACM Multimedia (AVEC), Nice, France, 10.2019.
Organisation
- Co-organisation of Workshop of Multimodal, Multilingual and Multitask Modeling Technologies for Oriental Languages (M3Oriental) held at the ACM Multimedia Asia, Tainan, Taiwan, 2023.
- Co-organisation of Summer School: AI for Bio-Medicine in Leibniz AI Lab, 2022.
- Coordination of TAPAS Training Event 6: Industry targeted event with networking, 2021.
Reviews
Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- IEEE Sensors Letters
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters
- Neural Processing Letters
- Physiological Measurement
- Scientific Reports
- Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Conferences
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- ICML Expressive Vocalizations Workshop & Competition (ExVo)
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
- Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Workshop (DCASE)
- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
- ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
- ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition
- IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
Impressions
- “Researchers develop more comprehensive acoustic scene analysis method”, in phys.org, 10.04.2018.
- “Researchers develop more comprehensive acoustic scene analysis method”, in EurekAlert!, AAAS, USA, 09.04.2018.